Marked for Lukas Baumgartner
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Upbeat
Match7 Dec 2026
Stripfing are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 34 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Pascal Klemens and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Stripfing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Rózga was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Austria Wien to sit and watch. I want to come back to Stripfing and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Match5 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Philipp Sabitzer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Stripfing.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
Top-of-the-table clash for Stripfing
Austria Salzburg next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.70 on the card, and the Stripfing support went home talking about one name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Filip Rózga makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match9 Nov 2026
28 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match7 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Stripfing
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Filip Rózga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
12 combined actions and 6.99. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Match7 Nov 2026
Stripfing make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Stripfing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Xaver Lainer is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I watch every Stripfing game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Austria Wien runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad9 Nov 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Stripfing are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market9 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Triumph
Match2 Nov 2026
27 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.14, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match31 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Stripfing right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stripfing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Filip Rózga falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match31 Oct 2026
FAC Wien made Stripfing work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match31 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Stripfing. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Match17 Oct 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Philipp Sabitzer scored in the 88th minute, Admira Wacker had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Stripfing took the lot.
Squad19 Oct 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Stripfing
Pascal Klemens and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Jonas Krumrey has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Admira Wacker, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 34, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Julian Wober
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
3‑0, and Philipp Sabitzer took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Stripfing tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A brace, and Philipp Sabitzer takes the afternoon — 8.38
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Philipp Sabitzer provided it, and the 8.38 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.97 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Stripfing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Rózga was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Xaver Lainer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Meritan Shabani ran the middle of the pitch — 7.20
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 7.20, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Heinz Lindner, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Patrick Touray
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
9‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 8.10 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.74, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Stefan Schlager, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
An offer of $830.0K for Yusuf Demir
Stripfing have gone to Rapid Wien with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Stripfing heard it as anything else.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Stripfing have gone to LASK with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.